Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into.
Books Mentioned:
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Diamond Head by Cecily Wong (interview here)
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (interview here)
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
Lobizona & Cazadora by Romina Garber (interview here)
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Self-Care by Leigh Stein
The Assistants by Camille Perri
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino
A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin (interview here)
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster
The Power of Knitting by Loretta Napoleoni (review here)
Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe
Skin: A Natural History by Nina G. Jablonski
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
Also mentioned:
Nina’s love letter to Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Emma and Renee discuss The Poppy War
Natalia and Renee’s best books of 2021
Layne Fargo’s podcast Unlikeable Female Characters
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This episode was edited by Phalin Oliver and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
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